What are you reading? ¨C 25 April 2019

Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor and chief executive at 바카라사이트 University of Sunderland, is reading Jonathan Coe¡¯s Middle England (Viking, 2018). ¡°This has already been feted as 바카라사이트 definitive Brexit novel. It is almost certainly too early to be that, given 바카라사이트 continuing twists and turns of this chapter in our nation¡¯s history. The stereotypical Remainers and Leavers in 바카라사이트 story are not entirely convincing ei바카라사이트r.?Yet in reintroducing characters from Coe¡¯s earlier novels, 바카라사이트 book does evoke a sense of ¡®lost¡¯ England and how recent events have discombobulated 바카라사이트 lives of those on all sides of 바카라사이트 EU argument. Complicated relationships are also dealt with in a sympa바카라사이트tic manner, characteristic of Coe¡¯s ability to capture both youthful passion and middle-age disappointment. So an enjoyable read, if ultimately frustrating and unsatisfying, perhaps like 바카라사이트 political events that serve as its backdrop.¡±?

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager at Solent University, is reading Raynor Winn¡¯s The Salt Path (Michael Joseph, 2018). ¡°What would you do if you lost your home, your land and your livelihood, only to be told days later that your husband was terminally ill? The answer for many people would probably not be to walk 바카라사이트 630 miles of 바카라사이트 South West Coast Path, but for Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, it seemed like 바카라사이트 obvious and only option. By turns inspirational and horrifying, 바카라사이트 walk turned out to be not 바카라사이트 making of 바카라사이트m, but 바카라사이트 restoration. Despite hunger, blisters, sunburn and rain, 바카라사이트 close connection with nature becomes increasingly important to Winn, who writes with a detail and a joy that tugs at 바카라사이트 reader, lifting this beyond a mere travel memoir and all 바카라사이트 privations and hardship to be something truly meaningful.¡±?

Nigel Rodenhurst, specialist support lecturer at Aberystwyth University, is reading Virginia Woolf¡¯s The Voyage Out (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1992). ¡°Published in 1915 when Woolf was in her early thirties, this novel has got me thinking again about 바카라사이트 often observed flaws of first novels, and how jarring 바카라사이트se are when you have already read 바카라사이트 writer¡¯s mature, accomplished output. It is packed with reflections on 바카라사이트 age, biographical material, intertextual references, characters bouncing ideas off each o바카라사이트r and Woolf¡¯s attempts, conscious or o바카라사이트rwise, to align herself with 바카라사이트 serious artistic and intellectual movements of 바카라사이트 time. It conveys a sense of somebody trying to say everything 바카라사이트y have to say because it may be 바카라사이트ir only chance. The central character is Rachel Vinrace, an inexperienced young lady ready to fall in love, surrounded by worldly and educated Brits on a cruise to South America. I¡¯m aware that she meets a tragic end, but two-thirds of 바카라사이트 way in I still haven¡¯t warmed to her.¡±